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Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the second edition -- 1: DIFFERENT WAYS TO THINK ABOUT GOVERNANCE -- Process and outcomes: The State as independent and dependent variable -- Perspectives on governance -- Governance as structure -- Governance as hierarchies -- Governance as markets -- Governance as networks -- Governance as process -- Governance as steering and coordinating -- Governance as an analytic framework -- The importance of governance -- Governance in other disciplines -- 2: CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GOVERNANCE -- Role of government in governance -- The role of society -- Linkages between State and society -- Changing models -- Theories of governance -- Traditional authority -- Autopoiesis and network steering -- Cybernetics and steering -- Policy instruments -- Institutional analysis -- Rational choice -- Networks and policy communities -- Collaborative or interactive governance -- Neo-Marxism and critical theory -- Nation-states embedded and embedding -- From government to governance: Institutions and governance -- 3: THE TRANSFORMATION OF GOVERNANCE -- The conventional view on government -- From conventional government towards interactive governance -- Diffusion of power and control -- Building partnerships with societal partners -- What's left of the State? -- Regional governance -- Urban governance -- Concluding discussion -- 4: GOVERNANCE BEYOND THE STATE -- Governance problems at the international level -- Governing beyond the State -- The actors -- The process -- The outcomes -- Creating governance at the global level -- Goal setting -- Goal coherence -- Resource mobilization -- Implementation -- Evaluation and feedback -- Transnational governance as multilevel governance -- Summary and conclusions -- 5: MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE -- Governance across institutional levels.

Intro -- Introduction: State, Market and Organizational Form -- Economistic Interpretations of Global Change -- Beyond Homo Oeconomicus -- Embeddedness of Economic and Organizational Activity: Towards a Dynamic Conceptualization -- Part One. Political Processes, Economic Interests and Organizational Re-structuring in Societal Transformation -- Enterprise Change and the Management of Labour in a Transforming Society: The Case of Hungary -- Introduction -- Employment and Labour Management Policies in 14 Hungarian Enterprises -- Changes in Employment -- Employment and Personnel Policies -- Work Organization and Control -- Conclusions -- The Machineries of Institutional Transformation: The Case of Czech Agriculture -- Introduction: Studying Transformation -- Background: The Privatization of the Czech Economy -- The Reshaping of the Agro-Industrial Complex -- Cooperative/Collective Farms (CFs) -- State Farms (SFs) -- Processing Industry -- The Transformation of CFs -- The Future of OCs -- Discussion -- Institutional Change and Natural Selection -- Policy and Reality -- Theory and Policy -- Conclusion: Theory and Reality -- Enterprise Reform and the Role of the State: The Case of the Capital Iron and Steel Works, Beijing -- Introduction -- The Shougang Corporation -- The Contract Responsibility System -- The State Contract System -- The Internal Contract System -- Effects of the Contract Responsibility System -- Disparities between Enterprises -- Short-termism -- Impact on the Tax System and Government Revenue-raising -- Limits to Enterprise Autonomy -- Excessive Enterprise Autonomy -- Limited Improvement in Management Quality -- Failure to Resolve the Problem of Property Rights -- The Continued Social Welfare Burden on Large Enterprises -- Fate of a CRS Flagship -- New Models of Enterprise Reform.

All Agency country representatives highlighted the topic of Teacher Education for Inclusion (TE4I) as a top priority. The Agency project started in 2009 and ended with a final project conference in February 2012. All information from the project activities is available on the TE4I web area. This policy paper gives an overview of the project conclusions and recommendations. It highlights how the project recommendations may also contribute to other European Union and international policy priorities. Download the policy paper below as a PDF in 21 of the Agency's official languages: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. ; This publication has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

From the magazines and newspapers of the mid-1800s to movies and apps of the twenty-first century, popular culture and media in the United States provide prolific representations of higher education. This report positions artifacts of popular culture as pedagogic texts able to (mis)educate viewers and consumers regarding the purpose, values, and people of higher education. It:Discusses scholarly literature across disciplinesExamines a diverse array of cross-media artifactsReveals pedagogical messages embedded in popular culture texts to prompt thinking about the multiple ways higher education

"Im Kontext des Diskurses über den Abbau der Bildungsbenachteiligung von Kindern und Jugendlichen aus Familien mit Migrationshintergrund wird der Blick verstärkt auch auf die Möglichkeiten der Familienbildung gerichtet. Hier wurden in den letzten Jahren zahlreiche Konzepte entwickelt bzw. aus dem Ausland adaptiert. Im vorliegenden Aufsatz werden solche Programme anhand eines mehrdimensionalen Kategorienschemas systematisiert. Als Unterscheidungskriterien wurden die Anzahl der Programmmodule, die Adressaten sowie die Konzeptstruktur herangezogen. Ergänzende Analysen verdeutlichen, dass sich die meisten Programme sehr um Niedrigschwelligkeit bemühen und auch kurzfristig zu positiven Effekten führen. Inwieweit durch Familienbildung tatsächlich langfristige Effekte auf den Bildungserfolg der Kinder erzielt werden können, lässt sich auf Grundlage vorliegender empirischer Untersuchungen jedoch nicht beurteilen, da diese in der Regel weder ein Kontrollgruppen- noch ein Längsschnittdesign aufweisen." (Autorenreferat)

What does it take to develop enlightened leaders who can transform their organizations and communities? The quest to develop enlightened leaders who are self-aware, learning centered, adaptable, interpersonally competent, and team oriented is a challenge faced by many management programs. The Master of Science program in Executive Leadership and Organization Change (ELOC) was designed to develop enlightened leaders who can demonstrate outstanding and transformative leadership in their organizations and communities. The ELOC program is an innovative executive-level master's program designed to develop leadership and change management skills through the pedagogical framework of ACT (action learning, competency development, and teamwork). ELOC students participated in a public engagement practicum course in the first summer of their program. A description of the ELOC program as well as a description of the service-learning course is presented. Key components in the program and course that facilitated the desired executive leadership development are highlighted.

This thesis analyzes a gradual political transformation in Texas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It specifically analyzes the political climate following the 2014 Midterm Elections by using the valuable context of past Texas political history. In spite of the massive setbacks of the 2014 election cycle, the Democratic Party may actually have a bright future in the state of Texas. Demographic and economic trends provide the party with an opportunity to make steady gains. But such progress will not happen automatically: Democrats have to run candidates and take positions that appeal to the emerging Texas electorate.

Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu examine the relationship between religion and politics in ten former communist Eastern European countries, showing church-state relations in the new EU member states through study of political representation for church leaders, governmental subsidies, registration of religions by the state, and religious instruction in public schools

The article focuses on projects, which are managed by the EU in the field of education and training, recent changes to the EU policy in educational programmes. Erasmus+ unites programmes and actions in the field of education and training, fostering the EU added value in education and European dimension. It gives an insight into the concept of projects management in education, European legal regulations, specific European programmes in education and training.

On justice -- Meritocracy : the basics -- The metatheory of justice -- What we think about justice and why it matters -- A meritocratic theory of economic justice -- The foundation of meritocracy -- On the distribution of jobs -- On the distribution of income -- Defending desert from John Rawls -- Meritocratic public policy -- Meritocratic taxation -- Meritocratic social programs, and final matters